The Foreign Policy of Adolf Hitler with Thomas777 - Complete

as this kind of provincial rube who was not at all worldly, you know, and, you know, kind of had no understanding of power political affairs outside of, you know, this narrow corner literally of the kind of, of the Hassery Empire where he was raised, you know, this kind of, this kind of underdeveloped, you know, sort of failing by the time he was born, like monarchist dinosaur, you know, that was, that was racked by like ethnic conflict and things and kind of arcane political structures, you know, and, and, and intrigues and vendettas therein.

That's not at all the case.

It was very, very rare for people in Hitler's epoch to travel overseas.

You know, like, for example, it was like a big deal when like Wilson went to Europe, you know.

Hitler himself also, as, as Kuzebek and, and his sister relayed, Hitler was in love with like American stuff.

When he was like, when he was a little kid, Hitler's two passions were reading and he constantly would pour over maps with his colored pencils.

He was obsessed with geography and cartography and sketching out with his pencils, you know, battle scenarios of, you know, the Napoleonic Wars and, you know, the Franco-Prussian Wars and like these great conflicts he'd read about.

But he loved reading about cowboys and Indians and like playing cowboys and Indians.

And so I found hilarious is, you know, the Wheatcroft collection that, that, that eccentric Englishman from central casting, Wheatcroft, who's got the most extensive collection of Third Reich artifacts on this planet from, you know, like Hitler busts to Panzer tanks and everything in between.

I guess when the Berghof was dynamited, there was still the basement areas one could access and Berghof and Wheatcroft and his buddy, they went there, they rappelled down.

You know, into the basement area.

I mean, they're lucky it didn't collapse on them.

And there was like a game room there.

You know, like I guess there was like this-- There was a bowling alley, but everywhere there was like Coca-Cola signs and like a Coca-Cola vending machine.

And I guess Sweetcross's buddy's like, "Wasn't this like nuts?" And Sweetcross's like, "No, Hitler loved Coca-Cola.

You know, his favorite movie was King Kong." You know, um, he, uh, Hitler had fought the Americans, you know, as a, as a, as a Landser in, in the Reich's, um, in, in, in, in, in the Kaiser's army.

Okay? Um, Hitler wasn't like ignorant of America or something, or like just viewed it as, you know, like in the way like some provincial European, you know, full of sort of small-minded and, and small town prejudices would.

And [coughs] what he began saying to his one-time confidant, uh, Putzi Hanfstaengl.

Hanfstaengl was one of the-- Even after the, even after the Röhm purge, Hanfstaengl, he was one of the people who was, uh, you know, at least party adjacent, if not, you know, um, truly insinuated into the, into the, into the inner circle of old fighters.

You know, he was in that orbit and he'd speak freely to Hitler, and he was constantly trying to sway Hitler away from viewing the Soviet Union as something that had to be destroyed.

Um, and, uh, Rosenberg hated him, and both men seemed to think they could somehow like sway the Führer to their perspective on Russia.

You know, obviously Rosenberg has this, you know, violently punitive view of Russia, which is totally understandable, him being a Baltic German.

And, um, Hanfstaengl said to Hitler that, you know, it'd be a fool's errand for any, you know, for any, for any warlord or any, you know, to, to make war on the Soviet Union.

You know, that'd be an unwinnable war.

And Hitler said, "No, no." Hitler said, uh, that would be an essential war.